2 Timothy 4:7

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Summary

2 Timothy 4:7

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:

Have fought

1 Timothy 6:12

I have finished

I have kept

Revelation 3:8

General references

Hebrews 12:4

Bible References

Have fought

Fight the good fight of faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

I have finished

Jesus *said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to accomplish His work.

And while John was completing his course, he kept saying, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not He. But behold, one is coming after me the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.’

But I do not consider my life of any account as dear to myself, so that I may finish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify solemnly of the gospel of the grace of God.

Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.

Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead,

Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

I have kept

Guard, through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us, the

treasure which has been entrusted to you.

Buy truth, and do not sell it,

Get wisdom and instruction and understanding.

But the seed in the good soil, these are the ones who have heard the word in an honest and good heart, and hold it fast, and bear fruit with perseverance.

But He said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it.”

“I have manifested Your name to the men whom You gave Me out of the world; they were Yours and You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.

O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you, avoiding worldly and empty chatter and the opposing arguments of what is falsely called “knowledge”—

‘I know your deeds. Behold, I have put before you an open door which no one can shut, because you have a little power, and have kept My word, and have not denied My name.

General references

Mark the

blameless man, and behold the upright;

For the man of peace will have a

posterity.

He who has found his life will lose it, and he who has lost his life for My sake will find it.

Blessed is that slave whom his master finds so doing when he comes.

If any man’s work which he has built on it remains, he will receive a reward.

You have not yet resisted

to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin;